GAME SHOW TITLE FONTS

Most of these fonts have not already been shown in a publicly viewable
collection on the Web. This page contains references to The Solotype
Catalog of 4,147 Display Typefaces by Dan X. Solo (Mineola, N.Y.: Dover
Publications Inc., 1992).

The Tic Tac Dough title font was used for contestant names
on that show and Press Your Luck, for celebrity
panelists’ nameplates on CBS Match Game and for most
screen text on Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego?.

Franklin Gothic Extra Condensed was used in the audience bonus round on
The Joker’s Wild, and on the game boards for Press
Your Luck and all 20th-century versions of Pyramid.

The Wheel of Fortune title font is called either Bust or
Chesty (see the Dover Moderne Display Fonts CD-ROM); it includes lowercase
letters and several uppercase letters are different from those in the
Fortune Wheel font made by Derek Vogelpohl. I have uploaded a comparison
page.

I am currently looking for a TrueType version of Hopkins, the all-uppercase
display font used on Shopper’s Bazaar, the 1973 pilot that
became Wheel of Fortune. Alan Prescott has revived it as Hopscotch
Roman.